Thursday, November 29, 2012

Many thought that Configuration-Only Export of VM is not anymore in new Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. In fact it has gone from UI but it can be done through PowerShell script. The ability to do a configuration-only export of a VM is available via SCVMM R2, However, if you are not using SCVMM, you can script against that API. Here are a couple of sample scripts (VBScript) for doing the configuration-only export of a VM and for importing that VM.